CHAPTER VII — GROUND PROFILE
Reading downward.
Chapter VI reads upward, into weather. This one reads the other direction. What the ground beneath the beds is made of, how warmth and water move through it hour by hour, and what the Canadian soil survey has long said about this particular stretch of Oro-Medonte. Three ways of describing the same body the microphones are pressed against.
BASS LAKE, ORO-MEDONTE, ONTARIO — 44°36′45″ N · 79°30′39″ W
TODAY, BY DEPTH
Listening down through the layers…
The profile, horizon by horizon
MODELLED COMPOSITION — SOILGRIDS 2.0, ISRIC
Taking the core…
The survey record
CANADIAN SOIL INFORMATION SERVICE — CANSIS
Long before any of this listening, surveyors walked Simcoe County with augers and named what they found. CanSIS holds that inheritance: the national archive of soil surveys, landscape polygons and horizon descriptions maintained by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Because of that work, the ground under the beds already carries an official soil series name, recorded decades ago by surveyors who identified each layer by hand — by its texture, moisture and structure between their fingers.
- Soil Landscapes of Canada, version 3.2
Polygon coverage of soil, landform, slope and drainage across the country — the layer that situates Oro-Medonte within a mapped soil landscape.
- Soil Survey of Simcoe County — Report No. 29 (1962)
Hoffman, Wicklund and Richards. The county survey that covers Oro-Medonte, with its north-sheet map, series legend and horizon descriptions.
- Detailed Soil Surveys — Ontario
County-level surveys, including the Simcoe County report, with named series, parent materials and drainage classes.
- Soils of Canada — interactive viewer
Browse the survey record by location; enter the field station coordinates to reach the polygon that contains the beds.
- Canadian Soil Information Service
The parent archive: national soil databases, classification, and the Canadian System of Soil Classification.
SOURCE — CANADIAN SOIL INFORMATION SERVICE, AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD CANADA.
Read this ground alongside
ELSEWHERE IN THE PORTFOLIO
CHAPTER VI
Where air meets soilThe daily ledger above this profile — temperature, rain, smoke and haze logged since March.
CHAPTER II
SoilWaves LiveThe live listening station at Bass Lake, broadcasting from the same beds these readings describe.
CHAPTER III
Listening RoomRecordings drawn from these horizons — the ground as it sounds, depth by depth.
CHAPTER IV
Research JournalSoil recipes, petrichor and the hand-kept notes behind the modelled numbers.
CHAPTER I
About SoilScapesHow the beds came to Bass Lake, and the synthesis paper that frames the whole practice.
CHAPTER VIII
Works that listened with meSoil science, sound studies and environmental history — the company this chapter keeps.